Function fread not terminating string by \0

Question

New to files in C, trying to read a file via fread

Here\'s the content of the file:

line1 how

Code used:

char c[6];         


        

Answer 1

No. The fread function simply reads a number of elements, it has no notion of "strings".

• You can add the NUL terminator yourself
• You can use fgets / fscanf instead

Personally I would go with fgets.